END TO END BERNERS: The Official Bernie Sanders 2020 Crew thread

After all, they've been told

Keeping calm while the right politely deny anyone a future on this planet.

Rabid twitter people ≠ most supporters. No way are Bernie’s stable of vocal zealots more toxic than Gabbard’s or Trump’s or, hell, Roy Moore’s.

agreed

Rabid twitter people

maybe this is a consequence of living in new york but if anything it's worse (if less frequent) irl

anyway yeah hate the fans not the band 2020

i don't think bernie supporters are notably more "toxic" than supporters of other candidates. this is just an idea that's been promoted to discredit the candidate.

Bingo.

Also, that Fassler guy seems to be more invested in going after Bernie than Republicans/status quo.

Yeah but Corbynists are why we deserve to become a 19th century robber baron hellscape, Fred otm

it would be really interesting to see what happens with Bernie stans if he actually became president (and I hope he does!). because he will inevitably disappoint in many ways, as all presidents do, and I wonder if the people who spend half the day on Twitter replying "go off king" to every Sanders utterance will turn on him or put on blinders/make excuses. my guess is the latter.

Same thing I tell Warren supporters: his plans don't mean shit until we win the Senate.

Plans are points of inspiration, to-do items, which is why they should be as ambitious as possible and insult as many people in the establishment as possible.

A Twitter search for "KHive" doesn't really turn up monuments to civility.

Alfred otm. Radicalism has no end point it, it's a program of continuing demands

It’s literally the smallest anecdotal evidence possible but I had dinner with my best bud last weekend and when talk turned to politics he derided Warren for, ironically enough, not having any plans and more or less saying she was going to fix things magically. I think her waffling on raising taxes to support M4All is the germ of this sentiment because my friend also praised Bernie for being willing to say he’d tax the shit out of rich people to fund his ambitions.

i don't think bernie supporters are notably more "toxic" than supporters of other candidates. this is just an idea that's been promoted to discredit the candidate.

― treeship., Friday, January 3, 2020

mmm they kinda are? The bros are, especially on Twitter. Messianic fervor is a helluva thing in politics.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 3, 2020 9:20 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't know enough to say how toxic "berniebros" are but they have definitely been the most exhausting to me since 2016.

it is amazing that "berniebros" caught on but "standers" didn't

posting this again because bernie >>>> this discussion

I was right about Vietnam.

I was right about Iraq.

I will do everything in my power to prevent a war with Iran.

I apologize to no one. pic.twitter.com/Lna3oBZMKB

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 3, 2020

ok

He’s right though. A war in iran would be a catastrophe of extraordinary magnitude, probably worse than any of us can imagine, and this inside baseball media nonsense doesn’t matter at all.

this isn't even the worst conversation itt in the past month

thanks for the dose of perspective we surely all have though treesh

People in the responses to that tweet don’t get it. A few take it as an example of bernie being self aggrandizing.

I mean, it's that as well though, lol

he forgot to mention grenada

People in the responses to that tweet don’t get it

replies to tweets by political candidates don't matter at all

I mean, it's that as well though, lol

― Frederik B, Friday, January 3, 2020 10:58 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

why are you even in this thread?

Fred works for blue cross blue shield

Blue eyes blue hearts can't lose

Just keep FPing the sack of shit and move on. No need to engage.

Bernie's complete refusal to apologize is worrying. If he won't apologize here, is there anything he won't apologize for. And if he won't apologize then his acolytes are going to take the message that apologizing is a sign of weakness. Once a self-reinforcing crowd mentality of not-apologising starts to take hold we're in real trouble. We saw this before with the election of Trump

Guys, this is hardly conducive to building bridges. The blame goes right to the top

soon as I see the word “berniebros” I’m done reading

or do you reach for your revolver?

it’s only January in due time

STOPPED CLOCK ALERT

I may be Chief Neoliberal Shill, but I also think Bernie Sanders is Democrats’ best choice for 2020:

— Least likely to start wars
— Strong full-employment plank
— Plausible electability argument
— Get the Young Left inside the tent pissing out https://t.co/IGkuraziTv

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 7, 2020

Worth the read: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/24/18510756/bernie-sanders-2020-democrats-neoliberals-chill

“I would beg [Bernie] to drop out so I don’t have to keep flying in from LA to do SNL... he’s idestructible, nothing stops this man. If he wins, do you have any idea what that’s going to do to my life? I mean do you have any idea? It’ll be great for the country, terrible for me.” pic.twitter.com/5YipWzopm4

— wideofthepost (@wideofthepost) January 9, 2020

should replace him with Adomian

Lorne would have to die first

bernie has secured the all important emily ratajkowski endorsement

and the Drew Magary.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bernies-policies-are-good-but-how-can-he-appeal-to-the-absolute-worst-people-ever

this lolzy little piece nails red state obsessed centrism better than anything i've seen tbh

Good stuff

This is how you win against Trump pic.twitter.com/MGBi2xriED

— SᴡᴇᴇᴘTʜᴇLᴇɢ (@CobraKeiser) January 10, 2020

"You got the fossil fuel industry, which is literally destroying the planet..."

'people like president trump, they are corporate socialists'

fuck yes, this is str8 fire

boom

Lorne would have to die first

damn, missed a solid Dead Pool pick

Bernie Sanders, sitting very rascistly... pic.twitter.com/G3NDmoS9Zj

— Garbage Ape 🗑 🦍 (@GarbageApe) January 11, 2020

Yes king

It means you’re going to lose. https://t.co/CVBKoKq8DT

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 12, 2020

Solid bern

Spent a couple hours volunteering at his SF headquarters yesterday. While I was there at least a dozen people walked in off the street asking what they could do to help. The bern was palpable.